The article discusses the phenomenon of "subject inversion" in Slovene. The discussion begins with Toporišič's classification of modifications (complementations) within a proposition, offering examples from corpora and other (written and spoken) sources; examples from other languages are also offered. The analysis focuses on the hierarchy of complementations, the order of words and word/functional phrases in a complex sentence, as well as the triggers of subject inversion. The order of complementations can be predicted by the theory of transformational-generative grammar and by the typological cross-linguistic studies. The analysis is conveyed in the syntactic level of language by taking into account some prosodic, information structure and semantic characteristics (logical form) of a given sentence. Such cases, particularly in spoken Slovene, may often be found in utterances with a foreign prosodic and consequently syntactic pattern, or at least some incoherence among the mentioned levels with respect to the linear representation of the sentence.
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